Joan

Joan married Michael de Poynings before 1349. Michael (son of Thomas de Poynings and Agnes de Rokesley) was born about 1317; died on 7 Mar 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married William Bardolf after 10 Feb 1366. William (son of John Bardolf and Elizabeth Damory) was born on 21 Oct 1349 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jan 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He accompanied John of Gaunt to Spain in 1386, and died there the next year.

Family/Spouse: Isabel Fitz Payn. Isabel (daughter of Robert Fitz Payn and Elizabeth de Bryan) was born about 1362; died on 11 Apr 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecily married Brian Stapleton before 1408. Brian (son of Miles Stapleton and Ela Ufford) was born about 1379; died on 7 Aug 1438; was buried in Ingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Richard Camoys after 10 Jun 1387. Richard (son of Thomas Camoys and Elizabeth Louches) was born in of Camoys in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England; died between 25 May 1416 and 24 Jun 1416. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Privy Councillor. He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 1404 to 1444.

Robert married Eleanor Grey before 22 Oct 1397. Eleanor (daughter of Reynold Grey and Margaret de Ros) died before 1434. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1439-40. Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1442, 1449, 1450.

Called by John Paston (d. 1466), in a letter to his wife dated 12 Jul 1461, a "knavish knight" and a "false shrew."

Miles married Katherine de la Pole in 1438. Katherine (daughter of Thomas de la Pole and Anne Cheyne) was born about 1416; died on 13 Oct 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant of the duke of Exeter, 1443.

Brian married Isabel before 4 May 1438. Isabel died after 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Radmylde. Ralph was born in of Lancing, Sussex, England; died on 3 Aug 1443. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Sussex.

Richard married Eleanor Berkeley after 8 Apr 1423. Eleanor (daughter of John Berkeley and Elizabeth Betteshorne) died on 1 Aug 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Christopher Harcourt before 1468. Christopher (son of Richard Harcourt and Edith St. Clair) was born about 1449 in of Great Ashby, Leicestershire, England; died after 1476. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Calthorpe before 7 Mar 1464. William (son of John Calthorpe and Anne Wythe) was born on 30 Jan 1410 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England; died on 15 Nov 1494 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Richers. John (son of John Richers and Margaret) was born about 1435 in of Swannington, Norfolk, England; died between 4 Mar 1501 and 12 Feb 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Rodnell.

Family/Spouse: John Goring. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Henry Percy before 25 Jun 1435. Henry (son of Henry Percy and Eleanor Neville) was born on 25 Jul 1421; died on 29 Mar 1461 in near Towton, Yorkshire, England; was buried in St. Dionis, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes Darell. Agnes (daughter of Thomas Darell and Thomasine Gresley) died after 1508. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Francis Hasilden before 31 May 1494. Francis (son of John Hasilden and Elizabeth Cheyne) was born in of Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England; died after 21 Nov 1522; was buried in Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Batchcroft. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Hewster. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Gascoigne before 1469. William (son of William Gascoigne and Joan Neville) was born about 1450 in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1545-46. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire.

John married Margaret Barantyne before 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1580 she he founded Peyton's Hospital in Isleham.

Frances married Robert Peyton in Jan 1516. Robert (son of Robert Peyton and Elizabeth Clere) was born about 1498 in of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1550; was buried in St. Andrew's, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Harry Richers.

Henry married Cecily Tillys before 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jasper Tyrell. Jasper was born in of Rawreth, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ninian Markenfield. Ninian (son of Thomas Markenfield and Eleanor Conyers) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Mar 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Tailboys before Apr 1493. George (son of Robert Tailboys and Elizabeth Heron) was born about 1467; died on 21 Sep 1538; was buried in Bullington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Anne.

Agnes married John Knyvet about 1538. John (son of Edmund Knyvet and Jane Bourchier) was born about 1517 in of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England; died before 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Rich. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Rich, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Jenkes) died on 17 Oct 1591; was buried in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Edmund Cushin on 20 Aug 1542 in Swannington, Norfolk, England. Edmund (son of John Cushin and Alice) was born about 1515 in of Swannington and Hingham, Norfolk, England; died before 21 Aug 1558; was buried on 21 Aug 1558 in Swannington, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Edmund Lewknor about 1532. Edmund (son of Roger Lewknor and Anne) was born on 16 Nov 1496 in Tangmere, Sussex, England; died on 11 Mar 1546; was buried on 12 Mar 1546 in Tangmere, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Robert Mauleverer before 2 Feb 1525. Robert (son of William Mauleverer and Anne Conyers) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edward Dymoke between 1523 and 1 Apr 1529. Edward (son of Robert Dymoke and Anne Sparrow) was born about 1508 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1529.

Gilbert married Elizabeth Blount about 1519. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Martin Sedley in 1577. Martin (son of Martin Sedley and Elizabeth Mounteney) was born about 1531 in of Morley, Norfolk, England; died about 1609; was buried on 10 Feb 1610 in St. Peter's Chapel, Morley, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Created a baronet by James I on 22 May 1611.

John married Alice Osborne on 29 Jun 1580 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England. Alice (daughter of Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hewitt) was born before 4 Mar 1563; was christened on 4 Mar 1563 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died between 29 Jan 1626 and 6 Dec 1626. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1569

Family/Spouse: William Thornton. William (son of Oliver Thornton and Parnell Bugge) was born about 1535 in of Downham, Norfolk, England; died on 24 Sep 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Stoughton on 27 Feb 1553. Thomas (son of Lawrence Stoughton and Anne Combes) was born on 25 Mar 1521 in of Stoke in Stoughton, Surrey, England; died on 26 Mar 1578 in London, England; was buried in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1607

Notes:

"Even though Frances Dymoke survived her husband Thomas Windebanck, and died testate around 1612, they must have been divorced or separated 'in some manner' as we have instances of Mary, widow of Edward Hunte, called, or calling herself, the 'wife' of Thomas Windebank, clerk of the Signet, at least between the years 1591-1600. The will of Thomas Windebank, around 1607/8, does not name a wife, and only mentions the known children by Frances." [John C. Brandon, citation details below]

Frances married Thomas Windebank on 19 Aug 1566 in Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Richard Windebank and Margaret ferch Griffith) was born about 1550 in of St. Martin in the Fields, London, England; died on 24 Oct 1607; was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Brampton Gurdon on 8 Jul 1606 in St. Peter's, Morley, Norfolk, England. Brampton (son of John Gurdon and Amy Brampton) was born in 1566 in of Assington, Suffolk, England; died before 2 Apr 1650; was buried on 2 Apr 1650 in Assington, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. John (son of John Peyton and Dorothy Beaupré) was born about 1579 in of Doddington, Cambridgeshire, England; died between 24 Feb 1635 and 22 Apr 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Downham, Norfolk, England

Family/Spouse: Anne Smith. Anne (daughter of Giles Smith) was born about 1565; died after 21 Apr 1624. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Guilford in 1572, 1584, 1586, and 1593.

Lawrence married Rose Ive on 23 Apr 1575. Rose (daughter of Richard Ive and Elizabeth Agmondesham) was born about 1555; died on 1 Nov 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1624

Notes:

Her funeral monument in St. Barnabas Church, Faccombe, reads:

HERE LYES THE BODY OF ANNE READE, Y^E DEARE WIFE OF HENRY READE ESQ^R: ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R THO: WINDEBANKE K^T: CLARKE OF THE SIGNET TO THE LATE QUEENE ELIZAB: & TO K: IAMES THAT NOW IS, SHE WAS BEGOTTEN ON Y^E BODY OF FRANCIS DYMMOCKE HIS WIFE, ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R EDW: DYMMOCKE OF SKEERLSBY IN Y^E COVNTY OF LINCOLNE K^T: CHAMPION TO Y^E SAID QUEENE ELIZA: & HER SVCCESSO^RS BY THE TENVRE OF HIS LANDES

SHE DEBTED THIS WORLD TO REST WITH HER SAVIOR CHRIST Y^E 7^TH DAY OF IVNE 1624 IN Y^E 53 YEARE OF HER AGE & LEFT BEHIND HER ISSVES OF HER BODY LIVING, 2 SONNES FRANCIS & ROBT. & 3 DAV: MARGARET MILDRED & ANN

Note that John Bennett Bodie's transcription of this inscription gives her death date as 7 Jun 1624, whereas John Meredith Reade's transcription says 17 June of the same year. From images posted online, it would appear thatg Bodie is correct.

Anne married Henry Reade on 3 Sep 1592 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Henry (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born in 1566; died on 12 Apr 1647; was buried in Faccombe, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Secretary of State under Charles I.

"Francis Windebank matriculated on 18 May 1599 from St John's College, Oxford, where William Laud, who by 1608 had become his 'dear friend', may have been his tutor. He graduated BA on 26 January 1602 and entered the Middle Temple on 4 February 1603. In February 1605 he was granted a clerkship of the signet in reversion after Levinus Monck and Francis Gall before leaving on an extended tour through France, Germany, and Italy. On his return to England in February 1608 he took up work in the signet office, now able to write letters in both French and Italian, adding by 1616 a reading knowledge of Spanish. In July 1608 he married Edith Jackson, of obscure origins and, as he later hinted, limited means." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Multiple accounts of his escape to France in 1640 (see below) mention that he was accompanied by his secretary and nephew Robert Reade. This was the Robert Reade who was a brother of Col. George Reade of Virginia, both of them sons of Francis Windebank's sister Mildred by her husband Robert Reade. (See John Meredith Read, "The English Ancestry of Washington," The Atheneum number 3465, 24 Mar 1894.)

From Wikipedia (accessed 8 Nov 2021):

After a few years of continental travel (1605–1608), he settled at Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire and was employed for many years in minor public offices, eventually becoming clerk of the council.

In June 1632, he was appointed by King Charles I as Secretary of State in succession to Lord Dorchester, his senior colleague being Sir John Coke, and he was knighted. His appointment was mainly due to his Spanish and Roman Catholic sympathies. The first Earl of Portland, Francis, Lord Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner group in the council, and with their aid the king carried on various secret negotiations, especially with Spain.

In December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the war in the Netherlands.

Windebank's efforts as treasury commissioner in 1635 to shield some of those guilty of corruption led to a breach with Archbishop Laud. In the same year Windebank was one of the promoters of the Courteen association, and the next year he was for a time disgraced for issuing an order for the conveyance of Spanish money to pay the Spanish troops in the Netherlands.

In July 1638 he urged the king to make war with the Scots, and in 1640, when trouble was breaking out in England, he sent an appeal from Queen Henrietta Maria to the pope for money and men. He was elected in March 1640 to the Short Parliament, as member for Oxford University, and he entered the Long Parliament in October as member for Corfe Castle. In December the House learnt that he had signed letters of grace to recusant priests and Jesuits, and summoned him to answer the charge, but the king allowed him to escape to France. From Calais, he wrote to Christopher Hatton, defending his integrity, and affirming his belief that the Church of England was the purest and nearest the primitive Church. He remained in Paris until his death, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion.

Windebank married and had a large family. William Laud referred in 1630 to his "many sons". He had five at least, and four survived him:

Thomas (born c. 1612), was M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was made a baronet in 1645. He was Clerk of the Signet from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the Interregnum) from 1660 to 1674.

Francis (died 1645) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialled and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon House, near Oxford.

Christopher (born 1615) was an Englishman who lived in Madrid and worked as guide and interpreter for English ambassadors.

John (1618–1704), a physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Of Windebank's daughters:

Margaret married Thomas Turner (1591–1672), and was mother of Thomas Turner (1645–1714), president of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and of Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, one of the seven Bishops who, refusing to accept James II's Declaration of Indulgence, were imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Frances married Sir Edward Hales on 12 July 1669.

One other died unmarried at Paris about 1650.

Two others became nuns of the Calvary at the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, Paris.

Francis married Edith Jackson in Jul 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 6 Aug 1630 and 31 Dec 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Aug 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 15 Aug 1630

Mildred married Robert Reade on 31 Jul 1600 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Robert (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born about 1568 in of Faccombe, Hampshire, England; died before 20 Mar 1627; was buried on 20 Mar 1627 in Linkenholt, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Apr 1688, Hulme, Lancashire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 25 Apr 1688

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

She went to New England with he husband in 1635, but by 1643 it was evident that colonial life was taking a serious toll on her health. On 10 May 1643 Richard Saltonstall was granted permission to leave the Massachusetts General Court due to her illness. They returned to England late in 1645; he then went immediately back to New England.

"There is no evidence that Muriel Saltonstall was ever in New England again. Henry Newcome saw the Saltonstalls at Hulme in Lancashire on 19 June 1667, and reported that she was very weak. She died in 1688. Newcome preached her funeral sermon at Didsbury. Muriel Saltonstall's dislike of New England apparently extended to a desire that her portrait should not be sent to Massachusetts after her death." [Abandoning America, citation details below.]

Muriel married Maj. Richard Saltonstall on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Richard (son of Richard Saltonstall and Grace Kaye) was born before 1 Oct 1610; was christened on 1 Oct 1610 in All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Apr 1694 in Hulme, Lancaster, England; was buried on 2 May 1694 in St. James', Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Brent after 1635. George (son of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reade) was born in 1602 in of Defford, Worcestershire, England; died in 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Jun 1627

Mary married John Haynes, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Governor of Connecticut on 11 Apr 1616 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. John (son of John Haynes and Mary Mitchell) was born on 1 May 1594 in Messing, Essex, England; was christened in Messing, Essex, England; died before 9 Jan 1654 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Staughton, or Stoughton, is in Stoke, near Guildford.

Family/Spouse: Agnes Pierce. Agnes (daughter of Robert Pierce) died on 15 Mar 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1606, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England

Notes:

"A noted Royalist. [...] He was admitted scholar of New College, December 10th, 1624; Fellow, January 15th, 1626; LL.D., 1638; Advocate of Arches Court; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1643; resigned his Fellowship, September 21st, 1645, and Edward Farmer, of the parish of St. Helen's, Abingdon, was admitted in his place. He had a king's letter in his favour, dated March 31st, 1624; and in 1642 trailed a pike for King Charles in the university, and served his Majesty in the army, but on the decline of the king's cause changed his religion and became a secular priest; esteemed a good scholar and civilian." [John Meredith Read, citation details below]

According to John Bennett Bodie (citation details below), the Linkenholt parish register says he was baptized 18 Oct 1604, earlier than the 1606 birth year given by other sources.

Notes:

He was secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of State under Charles I, and accompanied him on his escape to Paris in 1640. We do not know the dates of his birth or death, but he is mentioned in the nuncupative will of his brother Dr. Thomas Reade dated 7 Mar 1668.

In a letter from Paris to his cousin Thomas Windebank, 19 Mar 1641, he mentions a trunk that had been left behind in his chamber at Whitehall, and regrets its loss, "for there were many good things in it which I had gathered together, and such as had no relation to the State."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Oct 1608
• Alternate death: 1671, Virginia

Notes:

"George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]

He is a "gateway ancestor" for PNH's sister-in-law, a descendant of Edward III and over five thousand other medieval people. A daughter of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Joan Beaufort, was married twice; through her second marriage, to Ralph de Neville, George Reade is an 8X-great grandson of Edward III. Through her second marriage, to Robert Ferrers, Reade is a 9X-great grandson of the same king, and also a 9X-great grandson through another of Edward's sons, Lionel of Antwerp.

He and his wife Elizabeth Martiau were great-great grandparents of George Washington:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

It has been suggested that George Washington was named George after this particular great-great-grandfather. It does appear that George Reade represents the most recent, and possibly the only, previous instance of a George in Washington's ancestry.

George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau were also ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mary Warner = Col. John Smith
Mildred Smith = Robert Porteous
Robert Porteous = Judith Cockayne
Mildred Porteous = Robert Hodgson
Rev. Robert Hodgson = Mary Tucker
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson = Oswald Smith
Frances Dora Smith = Claude Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon = Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon = King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II

And of Meriwether Lewis:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Elizabeth Warner = Col. John Lewis
Col. Robert Lewis = Jane Meriwether
William Lewis = Lucy Meriwether
Meriwether Lewis

And of General George S. Patton:

Thomas Reade = Lucy Gwynne
Mildred Reade = Philip Rootes
Elizabeth Rootes = Rev. John Thompson
Philip Rootes Thompson = Anna Davenport
Eleanor Thompson = William Thorton
Susanna Thompson Thorton = Andrew Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell = George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton = Ruth Wilson
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George married Elizabeth Martiau about 1641 in Yorktown, York, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martiau and (Unknown first wife of Nicholas Martieu)) was born in 1625; died between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687 in Virginia; was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Sewall on 27 Mar 1687. Mary (daughter of Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe) was born between 1658 and 1659; died on 12 Mar 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Cooke before 1643. Joseph (son of Thomas Cooke and Grace Upcher) was born about 1608 in of Great Yeldham, Essex, England; died before 19 May 1699 in Stanway, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rose married Richard Otis about 1651. Richard (son of Stephen Otis and Elizabeth) was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, England; died on 28 Jun 1689 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

He went to New England with his father in 1630, the first of at least eight Atlantic crossings in his lifetime. He was a man of many interests and offices, both in New England and during England's commonwealth period. Notably, back in New England after the Restoration, Richard Saltonstall donated £50 to support the fugitive regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley, and he was one of the few people who knew where in New England they were hiding. He was also on several occasions embroiled in political conflict with the Winthrop/Dudley government of colonial Boston.

Richard married Muriel Gurdon on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Muriel (daughter of Brampton Gurdon and Muriel Sedley) was born about 1613; died on 21 Apr 1688 in Hulme, Lancashire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1688 in St. James' Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Jan 1694

Mildred married Augustine Warner before 1671. Augustine (son of Col. Augustine Warner and Mary Towneley) was born on 3 Jun 1642 in York County, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Thomas Chisman. Thomas (son of Edmund Chisman and Mary) was born about 1652; died between 25 Jan 1710 and 18 Jul 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Rowland Cotton in Sep 1692 in z. Rowland (son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter) was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 18 Mar 1722 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roswell Neale. Roswell (son of Anthony Neale and Elizabeth Roswell) died between 24 Mar 1751 and 1 May 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Lt. Col. John Talcott on 9 Nov 1676. John (son of John Talcott and Dorothy Mott) was born about 1625 in Braintree, Essex, England; died on 23 Jul 1688 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Jun 1689

Notes:

Called in some records Hotesse.

Steven married Mary Pitman on 16 Apr 1674 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 26 Mar 1701
• Buried: 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

Mildred married Lawrence Washington about 1690. Lawrence (son of Col. John Washington and Anne Pope) was born in Sep 1659 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died between 11 Mar 1698 and 30 Apr 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. John Brown in 1719 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of Ichabod Brown and Martha Woodbury) was born on 1 Nov 1696 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1742 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne. Anne died before 7 Jan 1786 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 7 Jul 1729

Notes:

Rose Otis was her birth name. Captured by the Abenaki in the same 1689 raid on Cochoco, New Hampshire in which her father Steven Otis and grandfather Richard Otis were killed, she was taken to Québec and baptized Françoise. Multiple French records call her François Rozotty. She became a naturalized citizen of New France in 1710.

Her precise identity was long in dispute -- was she a daughter of Richard Otis, and if so, by which of his three wives? Or was she a granddaughter? Two sons of Richard's son Steven, Stephen and Nathaniel, were known to have been taken captive and sent to Quebec, where they married and lived out their lives. (Nathaniel was rebaptized with the name Paul.) Could she have been their sister?

This was finally resolved in 1988 when Sister Annette Potvin, a nun in Alberta, Canada, obtained a copy of the marriage contract between Jean Poitevin and Françoise Rozotty. The document describes her as "françoise Rosotis, daughter of deceased STINODIS and the deceased MARY OTOS, her father and mother, of English birth in the environs of Boston." "Boston" was a common term among Quebecois for most of New England, and "Stinodis" is a very plausibly what a French scribe would write when hearing the name "Steven Otis."

This is all thoroughly documented in Roger W. Lawrence's 1989 "The Identity of Rose Otis" (citation details below), but somehow this information has never managed to make it across the border between Canadian and American genealogical scholarship. Richardson's 2013 Royal Ancestry still lists her as a child of Richard Otis and Rose Stoughton, who were really her grandparents. So does Gary Boyd Roberts's 2018 The Royal Descent of 900 Immigrants.

Rose married Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette on 29 Oct 1696 in Beauport, Québec. Jean (son of Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette and Madeleine Guillaudeau) was born on 14 Sep 1672; was christened on 14 Sep 1672 in Québec City, Québec; died on 3 Feb 1752; was buried on 4 Feb 1752 in Charlesbourg, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Rowland Cotton in Sep 1692 in z. Rowland (son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter) was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 18 Mar 1722 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1694, Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia

Notes:

He was a partner in the Accakeek Fire Furnace.

Augustine married Jane Butler on 20 Apr 1715. Jane was born on 24 Dec 1699; died on 24 Nov 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustine married Mary Ball on 6 Mar 1731. Mary (daughter of Col. Joseph Ball and Mary) was born about 1707 in Lancaster County, Virginia; died on 25 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Aug 1735

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chapman. Elizabeth (daughter of John Chapman and Elizabeth) was born on 28 Dec 1709; died between 2 Aug 1780 and 17 Jun 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Wingate Thornton calls her merely "a dau." of "Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill" and his wife Joanna Cotton, but he is specific that she was the wife of "Rev. Edw. Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me."

Abigail married Rev. Edward Brooks in Sep 1764. Edward (son of Samuel Brooks and Mary Boutwell) was born on 31 Oct 1733 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was christened on 4 Nov 1733; died on 6 May 1781 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michel married Marie Françoise Tremblay on 14 Nov 1735 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec. Marie (daughter of Louis Tremblay and Françoise Morel) was born in 1710; died on 29 May 1778; was buried on 30 May 1778 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. John Brown in 1719 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of Ichabod Brown and Martha Woodbury) was born on 1 Nov 1696 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1742 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Martha Dandridge on 6 Jan 1759 in New Kent County, Virginia. Martha was born on 2 Jun 1731; died on 22 May 1802 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 20 Jun 1803

John married Mary Buckner in 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Gray on 25 Apr 1799. Samuel (son of Abraham Gray and Lydia Calley) was born on 2 Aug 1760; was christened on 10 Aug 1760 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1816 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prisque married Marie Dorothée Luce Renée Apolline Simard on 15 Oct 1764 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Marie (daughter of Noël Simard and Marguerite Cauchon) was born on 13 Dec 1747 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec; died on 10 May 1823 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Poitevin.

Marie married Joseph Amable Verreault on 27 Oct 1766 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Joseph (son of Prisque Barthélemy Verreault and Marie Cauchon) was born before 20 Aug 1738; was christened on 20 Aug 1738 in Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Wingate Thornton calls her merely "a dau." of "Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill" and his wife Joanna Cotton, but he is specific that she was the wife of "Rev. Edw. Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me."

Abigail married Rev. Edward Brooks in Sep 1764. Edward (son of Samuel Brooks and Mary Boutwell) was born on 31 Oct 1733 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was christened on 4 Nov 1733; died on 6 May 1781 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Feb 1836, Dearborn County, Indiana

John married Ann Palmer in 1789. Ann was born on 5 Jan 1770 in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia (now West Virginia); died on 7 Aug 1857 in Dearborn County, Indiana; was buried in Wilmington Cemetery, Wilmington, Dearborn, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 17 Oct 1811, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Henrietta married Ignatius Sargent on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Ignatius Sargent and Sarah Sargent Ellery) was born on 20 Jan 1800 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1884 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled Poitevin.

Jean-Marie married Agnès Bouchard on 30 Sep 1788 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Agnès (daughter of Pierre Bouchard and Sylvie Grenon) was born on 16 Mar 1773 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec; died on 20 Jun 1862 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Athalie.

She is widely shown in online genealogies as a daughter of Joseph Amable Verreault who married Marie Françoise Philothée Poitevin on 27 Oct 1766 in Baie Saint-Paul. In his listing for her marriage to Jean-Baptiste Saulnier, Denis Beauregard identifies her parents as "François Amable & Françoise Potvin." And his listing for Joseph Amable Verreault and Marie Françoise Philothée Poitevin does not include Nathalie (or Athalie) among their five children. But this appears to be a case where the online amateur genealogists are correct. On ancestry.com, "Isabelle1970" displays page from the Baie Saint-Paul register that clearly shows "Natalie Verreau" baptized there on 17 Mar 1780, a daughter of "Amable Verreau" and "Marie Poitevin."

Nathalie married Jean-Baptiste Saulnier on 10 Jan 1809 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Jean-Baptiste (son of Jean-Baptiste Saulnier and Geneviève Poulin) was born about 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Gray on 25 Apr 1799. Samuel (son of Abraham Gray and Lydia Calley) was born on 2 Aug 1760; was christened on 10 Aug 1760 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1816 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to The Buffington Family of Dearborn County, Indiana (citation details below), Edmund is one of nine children named in John B. Chisman's will (made 2 Dec 1834 and proved 14 Oct 1836), the others being Elias (whose will was made in 1877 and proved in 1883), John, George, William, James, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Charlotte.

He may be the Edmund Chisman recorded as a private in the 6th regiment of artillery (the record describes it as "READ, JR.'S") in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He would have been the right age, and it seems clear that the Chisman family's movement westward commenced later than 1812-14.

Edmund married Martha Brown on 29 Aug 1816 in Berkeley, James, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Marie-Antoinette Potvin.

Antoinette married Bernard Fortin on 2 Mar 1813 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Bernard (son of François Fortin and Marie Pélagie Boily) was born on 25 Dec 1789 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Athalie married Georges Bouchard on 22 Jan 1839 in St-Pierre et St-Paul, Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. Georges (son of Godefroy Bouchard and Julienne Debien) was born on 8 Feb 1811 in Les Éboulements, Québec; died on 3 Aug 1873 in Saint-Prime, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 17 Oct 1811, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Henrietta married Ignatius Sargent on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Ignatius Sargent and Sarah Sargent Ellery) was born on 20 Jan 1800 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1884 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is identified as a son of Edmond Chisman on his Find a Grave page and also that of his father. Edmond's father was also named John Buckner Chisman.

John married Sarah Jane Whitley on 17 May 1845 in Indiana. Sarah (daughter of George Leaman Whitley and Sarah Jane Riggs) was born on 22 May 1824 in Indiana; died on 20 Dec 1896; was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Solon, Johnson, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Angele married Edouard Lavoie on 23 Nov 1847 in Grande-Baie, Sanguenay, Québec. Edouard (son of Pascal Lavoie and Marie Néron) was born on 15 Oct 1812 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec; was christened on 15 Oct 1812 in St-Pierre et St-Paul, Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec; died on 3 Jul 1898 in Roberval, Le Domaine-du-Roy, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Virginie Lavoie on 27 Jan 1868 in Roberval, Le Domaine-du-Roy, Québec. Virginie (daughter of Edouard Lavoie and Angele Fortin) was born on 17 Jun 1851 in Grande-Baie, Sanguenay, Québec; died on 1 Sep 1936; was buried in Saint-Prime, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her Find a Grave page, which identifies her as the wife of Monroe Wightman -- who, according to George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (citation details below), married a Sarah Chisman -- says she was born 27 Aug 1848 (which date is visible on her gravestone) in Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. And the 1850 US census of shows Sarah S. Chisman, age 2, born in Indiana, in the Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana household of John Chisman, 32, born in Virginia, and Sarah J Chisman, 26, born in Indiana. (ancestry.com mistranscribes the family's surname as "Chrisman," but the handwriting on the census register clearly reads "Chisman.")

Additionally, Iowa County Marriages, 1838-1934 on familysearch.org shows the 1 Sep 1913 marriage of Sarah Wightman, daughter of John Chisman and Sarah Jane Whitley, to John Young, at Anamosa in Jones County. John Young's age is given as 61 and his parents as William Young and Elizabeth Merritt. Sarah Wightman's age is given as 60, which would appear to trim five years off her actual age, but that seems par for the course. It is absolutely clear that this Sarah Wightman is the widow of Monroe Alphonso Wightman (d. 1910) marrying a second time, and that she was a daughter of John Chisman and Sarah Jane Whitley.

Sarah married Monroe Alphonso Wightman on 16 Feb 1870 in Marion, Linn, Iowa. Monroe (son of William Wightman and Martha Woodard) was born on 19 Apr 1848 in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont; died on 15 Mar 1910 in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1853, Québec

Virginie married Jean Baptiste Bouchard on 27 Jan 1868 in Roberval, Le Domaine-du-Roy, Québec. Jean (son of Georges Bouchard and Athalie Saulnier) was born about 1848 in Québec; died on 15 Jan 1892; was buried on 18 Jan 1892 in Roberval, Le Domaine-du-Roy, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1883

Notes:

Her and Alfred Bergeron's marriage contract, dated 1 May 1901, was notarized at Roberval, which is, like Saint-Prime and Saint-Bruno, a small now near Lake Saint-Jean at the head of the Saguenay.

In the 1891 census of Canada she is listed at Notre Dame de Lac St Jean, Chicoutimi and Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, parents Jean Baptise and Virginie Bouchard.

The 1911 census has her living with her husband and six children in Saint-Prime, and gives the month as well as the year of her birth.

She entered the US from Canada with her husband Alfred on 18 Nov 1915, at Newport, Vermont; the record of that crossing gives her age as 31 and her birthplace as Roberval.

Massachusetts, U.S., Death Index, 1901-1980 contains an index listing for a Mary Louise Bergeron, birth surname Bouchard, who died in Ashburnham, Massachusetts in 1954. But the 1953 city directory of St. Albans, Vermont has "Bergeron Mary L wid Alfred" living there.

Mary married Alfred Bergeron on 6 May 1901 in Saint-Prime, Québec. Alfred (son of Joseph Odilon Bergeron and Mary Cloutier) was born on 1 Jan 1879 in Saint-Prime, Québec; died on 27 Apr 1939 in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont; was buried in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Newport, Orleans, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franklin married Iva Faye Covington on 24 Dec 1912 in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa. Iva (daughter of Steven Hole Covington and Minerva Josephine "Minnie" Yates) was born on 12 Oct 1894 in Belvidere, Thayer, Nebraska; died on 19 Sep 1985 in Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1883

Notes:

Her and Alfred Bergeron's marriage contract, dated 1 May 1901, was notarized at Roberval, which is, like Saint-Prime and Saint-Bruno, a small now near Lake Saint-Jean at the head of the Saguenay.

In the 1891 census of Canada she is listed at Notre Dame de Lac St Jean, Chicoutimi and Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, parents Jean Baptise and Virginie Bouchard.

The 1911 census has her living with her husband and six children in Saint-Prime, and gives the month as well as the year of her birth.

She entered the US from Canada with her husband Alfred on 18 Nov 1915, at Newport, Vermont; the record of that crossing gives her age as 31 and her birthplace as Roberval.

Massachusetts, U.S., Death Index, 1901-1980 contains an index listing for a Mary Louise Bergeron, birth surname Bouchard, who died in Ashburnham, Massachusetts in 1954. But the 1953 city directory of St. Albans, Vermont has "Bergeron Mary L wid Alfred" living there.

Mary married Alfred Bergeron on 6 May 1901 in Saint-Prime, Québec. Alfred (son of Joseph Odilon Bergeron and Mary Cloutier) was born on 1 Jan 1879 in Saint-Prime, Québec; died on 27 Apr 1939 in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont; was buried in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Newport, Orleans, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 29 May 1918, Anamosa, Jones, Iowa

Notes:

He and his wife Alise Emma Evans divorced in 1949 and remarried in 1950, either on 22 April in Yamhill, Oregon (Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920, on ancestry.com) or 29 April (Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968, on familysearch.org).

John married Alise Emma Evans on 30 Jun 1938 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, and was divorced on 17 Aug 1949 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Alise (daughter of Everett Owen Evans and Anna Josephine Lambert) was born on 26 Mar 1918 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; died in Feb 1995 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Joyce Ann Marie Dixon on 5 Aug 1961 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, and was divorced on 28 Apr 1971 in Washington County, Oregon. Joyce (daughter of Joseph Kozlowski and Helena Maria Mattfolk) was born on 19 Jan 1941 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died on 14 Apr 1997 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laura married Benjamin Titus Hayden on 6 Sep 1985 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. Benjamin (son of James Elbert Hayden and Jeannette Mary White) was born on 19 Nov 1962 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]